THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED DUE TO THE COVID-19 CRISIS
Created out of a keen kinesthetic sense, reached trough a lifetime of bodywork, figurines are sliced onto the paper. These one line drawing come improvisational without hesitation straight from the guts.
Yvonne Meier, equal dancer, choreographer, and visual artist, lets one form inspire the other.
Figurines appear single, couples are juxtaposed, crowds are found in an intricate dance.
About Yvonne Meier
Originally from Zurich, Switzerland, Yvonne Meier has lived and worked in New York City since 1979, where she became a member of the original group around Performance Space 122, regularly collaborating with Ishmael Houston-Jones and many others in the US and Europe. Her work, spanning anywhere from big spectacles to quiet solos, has been supported by three Fellowships in Choreography from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, NEA Inter Arts, Franklin Furnace and Pro Helvetia. The American Master Piece program of the NEA has supported the upcoming recreation of her performance-instillation work, The Shining. She has received three “Bessie” Awards for her works The Shining (1993 and 2011) and Stolen (2009). She has twice been supported through the Movement Research Artist-in-Residence program. Meier has been teaching Releasing Technique and Authentic Movement nationally and internationally for the last 30 years. After a life-long commitment to improvisation she has developed her own improvisation technique known as Scores. Meier also teaches children’s dance classes in NY Public Schools through Movement Research’s Dance Makers program.
On View
May 5–10, 2020
Admission
Free
Location
51 Bergen St.